Re: How to gnome/CORBA?

[Jim Pick <jim jimpick com>]

Philip Dawes <philipd@parallax.co.uk> writes:

> The opendoc book I'm reading also speculated that part providers would
> actually compete on binary size, since the user would be able to see and
> make judgements on whether the unit part component was 'bloated' or not,
> rather than just being told that an application is feature packed and to
> be pleased about the 12meg footprint.
> 
> Incidently I don't expect to see Ole/Active X fulfill the potentual of a
> document architecture - it just doesn't make business sense for
> Microsoft to break up its applications into small chunks so that other
> companies can compete on a level playing field.

Hmmm.  I wonder if that's the same reason why IBM and Apple decided to
kill off OpenDoc?  Big companies don't want the level playing field
that a good document architecture would allow for.

Just another conspiracy theory to add to the pile.  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim

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